03331nam 22006135 450 99624794290331620230331015354.01-282-35553-80-520-90934-897866123555300-585-13107-410.1525/9780520909342(CKB)111004366702002(EBL)223090(OCoLC)630527791(SSID)ssj0000084432(PQKBManifestationID)11116090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084432(PQKBWorkID)10168759(PQKB)10275786(MiAaPQ)EBC223090(OCoLC)43476661(MdBmJHUP)muse30394(DE-B1597)518737(OCoLC)816342257(DE-B1597)9780520909342(dli)HEB02439(MiU)MIU01000000000000003898678(EXLCZ)9911100436670200220200424h19911991 fg 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrThe life of a text performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas /Philip LutgendorfBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1991]©19911 online resource (486 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-06690-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-460) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustration --Acknowledgments --A Note on Transliteration --1. The Text and the Research Context --2. The Text in Recitation and Song --3. The Text Expounded: The Development of Mānas-Kathā --4. The Art of Mānas-Kathā --5. Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted --6. The Text in a Changing Society --Glossary of Names with Transliteration --Bibliography --IndexThe Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text-the epic Ramcaritmanas-and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture. The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation, folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context.Criticism, TextualCriticism, Textual.891/.4312Lutgendorf Philipauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut642234DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996247942903316The Life of a Text2390007UNISA